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Mass Blackout Takes Russian Internet Offline (www.themoscowtimes.com)
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[–] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It doesn't 'resolve' to Russia. The IP was allocated to yandex who's record for that block is listed in Russia. Any IP addres in that /24 can literally be used anywhere in their infrastructure anywhere in the world.

I have a VPS for example that RIPE shows is allocated to a company in Germany but the physical server sits in a datacenter on the west coast of the US.